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Assistant Scalabrine reassigned after clash with Jackson
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Warriors assistant coach Brian Scalabrine has been reassigned to a position with the franchise's NBA Development League team in Santa Cruz because of what head coach Mark Jackson called a "difference in philosophies."
"I made the decision," Jackson said after Tuesday's practice. "I'm fortunate enough to have an ownership group and a management group that allows me to pick my staff. We're just going in a different direction. That's that.
"I made a decision and wish him nothing but the very best. This is my decision and we move forward. One thing I will say is that we're a tied-together team, excited about finishing up the season the right way."
After Saturday's loss to San Antonio, Jackson met with his assistants for more than 30 minutes before finally making his way to the postgame news conference. At that time, he said the group was just "talking basketball."
By Tuesday, he said, he could not wait any longer to demote Scalabrine, but he didn't elaborate on why he felt the urgency.
Scalabrine is greatly respected in the organization, so the decision-makers didn't want to lose him. Scalabrine was on the 2008 NBA championship team in Boston, where Joe Lacob was a minority owner, and Warriors general manager Bob Myers was Scalabrine's agent for the first 10 of his 11 NBA seasons.
League sources say Jackson is very insecure about his assistants getting credit. He doesn't allow them to speak on the record to print media, and Scalabrine did not respond to requests from The Chronicle for a comment.
"For them to make a move like this - this late in the year and with what they're trying to accomplish - it's a very bad look," a league source said.
In a report based on league sources, Yahoo Sports wrote that the Warriors have "an increasingly dysfunctional atmosphere" and that Jackson has had difficulty managing his staff. The Warriors picked up the 2014-15 option on Jackson's contract after last season's playoff run, but did not discuss a long-term extension he thought would be automatic.
"The culture, the environment has no dysfunction at all. That's comical," Jackson said. "It's a fun time, and we are looking forward to finishing up the season. It's a time to be smiling and joyful."
Jackson has repeatedly joked about being on "the hot seat" during the past several weeks, but he says he's not paying attention to the perceived pressure.
"I do my job, and I have fun doing my job," he said. "You do your job the best you possibly can, and you try to impact lives, and you don't get caught up in that other stuff. There's nothing that you can do to control any of that, so there's no sense in losing a second entertaining 'What if?' Why not, 'What if we win it all?' I'm not wasting my time on that either."
Sacramento head coach Michael Malone, who was Jackson's lead assistant the past two seasons, denied a report that he and Jackson went weeks without talking during their tenure.
"Did Mark and I have great relationship? No. There was definitely some friction, but for him to say that we went weeks without speaking is crazy," Malone said in a phone interview. "We spoke every day. We worked through it, and he eventually realized that I wasn't out there self-promoting."
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Using Facebook During Advent
Many of us have Facebook accounts. But the question is – How are we using them? Most of us are using them in a wonderful casual way to stay connected to our family and friends. That's great! That is one of the key reasons we have a Facebook account.
However, once you have a FB account, you can easily set-up a Group! Yes, there are three types of Facebook Groups:
- Public (Open): everyone can see the Group, find it in a search and make posts
- Closed: everyone can see the Group, but only members can see (and make) posts
- Secret: only members can see the Group, see and make posts
Any of the group styles will work! It is your choice! Let's say you will use the "secret" group option. To learn more about this type of group, read the Social Media Examiner Post about How to Use Secret Facebook Groups to Enhance Your Business you'll notice that a business group may utilize this type of function. As you read this post, allow your imagination to consider how a FB group could be used in your ministry setting with families this Advent season.
To begin the conversation, I'm going to suggest how I would engage families in a weekly reflection on the Sunday Advent Scripture readings using a FB Closed group. I would:
- Create a FB group and remember to describe your group and choose and image/photo that will represent the group. (Note – Let's assume that our parish program registration forms asks for Cell Phone number, email address, FB information, and Twitter handle. )
- Two weeks before the First Week of Advent, using the family email addresses, I would send a "brief" email inviting the families of the children that are in my class to participate with all of us during the Advent Season by taking a few moments out of their busy schedules to read and reflect on the Sunday Scripture readings. Tell them that there will be a link to the Sunday Readings for them each week. When they are ready, they can share their comment or question on our special group FB wall. Or, send a flyer home to the parents via your students and include an announcement in your parish bulletin about the group.
- One day after the email is sent, send a "tweet" and "text message" to invite your parents to read the email message from you.
- One Week Before Advent begins: Invite each family to the FB group.
- Post the Sunday Scripture Readings for the 1st Sunday in Advent, using the link from the USCCB Readings website.
To get the conversation going, you may have encouraged several of your parents to post their reflection early in the week. Make sure you check the posts at least once daily and comment back. Remember, this is a place for a simple online conversation and sharing about what these Scriptures mean to you.
- At the end of the Advent Season, thank your parents for their participation in the Advent Scripture sharing. You may want to use a Zoomerang survey to get feedback about their experience with this online faith sharing activity.
- I hope that this article has sparked a possibility or two in your imagination. More importantly, I trust that you will share your story about how you are going to use (or thinking of using) a FB group in your ministry with families, or youth groups (13 and older), or RCIA ministry. Looking forward to hearing from you! Join in the conversation!
Remember to click on the "like" button if you like this post. Or, forward this link to other catechists who would be interested in hosting an Advent online Scripture Reflection group with parents, young adults, and anyone who is interested in sharing online.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The Sri Sri Sweatshop
It is indeed great business what Ravishankar has created for himself. He charges good money for his courses (the ones he did not really invent himself, from Part 1 to TTC, and creates many prerequisites, eg. If you want to do DSN, you need to have done ….), he asks for donations, he gets people to do things for free for him, he registers as a non-profit to avoid paying taxes, and has free, cheap, ilegal labor, and calls the whole thing "seva" – karma yoga.
As a former exploited AoL full-timer, I cannot blame him for having exploited me. How can I? I accepted the terms. But, I can, correctly, say he deceived me. He used me, squeezed the juice and life out of me, mistreated me, abused me and tossed me.
Some full timers worked and produced more than others. However, there was not a coherent system that took care of the teachers or compensated them according to results. Some full-timers did absolutely nothing yet got enough pocket money to survive, while living off people's good will. In general though, the stipend was not enough. Full-timers had the habit of never saying how much each one earned because we all knew we got different amounts. Stipends varied in the US, from as low as USD400 to USD 1000, the same amount in euros in Europe, no home, no medical insurance, no retirement plan. Needless to mention, we could not afford any of that with what we got. Until recently, European teachers could consider the German ashram their home, but now they also need to pay to stay there.
Until recently, teachers in the West taught for free, and some even covered expenses of courses. In general, getting expenses reimbursed was also a struggle. I know, however, that in the past 2, 3 years RS started giving teachers of certain areas 10% of the income of the course, probably as an incentive for them to create larger courses. In some countries, the 10% policy is yet not applied. However, in India and some countries of Asia, it's been practiced for at least 10 years. Indian full-timers got the most since they had stipend, 10% of courses, and received many donations from students. If any one of them was sent out to the West, it was good income, for courses others organized for them, and to which they just walked in like kings and queens, under the weird assumption that being Indian automatically made one more evolved. The overall system was not neither even nor fair.
Full time teachers in the West always struggled. It was never enough. Try living from USD 400, even USD 1000, without a home and medical insurance. Most "gypsied" around from home to home, staying in people's couches, or air mattresses, or even closets! If one ever got sick, one had to pray, like RS suggested in those cases, or he'd say, "Oh, we have so many doctors in the AoL." It was definitely a terrible way to live, even begging for medical treatments. If one was a traveling teacher, one simply could never go back for second check-ups or even treatments since one depended on finding an AoL doctor one needed in the area one was in that exact week of the ailment. And of course, pray or seduce some devotee to pay for the treatment and medication. It simply makes no sense. He sells "quality of life" and "health" yet he gives it to none of his teachers, and truthfully, he could careless about them.
A friend of mine, a full time teacher was advised by her doctor to take immediate rest. Her health was at risk due to high level of stress (I guess SK does not reduce stress after all). When she went to Ravishankar with the news, he frowned and said, "No, no, no, you keep teaching, there is no time." No time for what? No time for him to conquer the world? Or no time for her to take care of her health?
Another full time teacher got so sick from overwork, excessive travel and poor living conditions, she could not even move around. She actually developed quite a few diseases and had no choice but to stop everything. In fact, she could not move nor eat. She was one of the most dynamic teachers who produced a lot of devotees and money, yet, when this happened, he removed her from the lousy stipend for as long as she did not go back on the road – the money she needed for medical bills. Since she had nowhere to stay, like most full timers of the West, she went to an ashram and, the ashram assumed they'd charge her for the stay.
Did the money teachers make not go to the organization: the maintenance of these ashrams and seva projects after all? Ravi so often said, "You do my job, I take care of you." In the practice, it was not like that. We were double taxed: first made to donate all the money of the courses one produced, organized and taught, but also pay the organization. Upon the complains of this teacher, the responses were (the typical AoL phrase for everything that cannot be properly justified), "This is just to make you stronger. This is to make your faith unshakable so that you can be one with God. This is a test to see how much you can trust and surrender to the guru." Instead of seeing she had a point, they made her into the weak devotee, and an overall drama queen. Looking back, she was right. It was unfair, incorrect and abominable.
There was another full-time teacher to whom the organization owed more than USD 10,000. He fought so hard to get the amount reimbursed (with a stipend as low as the ones mentioned, any amount was a fortune!). The board was disorganized and cared more about their status rather than the duties. The guru did not care despite all the requests for help. Finally, under a lot of obvious pressure, he stepped firm to get the money, and, not only was he not reimbursed by the organization, but by a devotee almost 12 months later, and the board warned him to watch out "because they'd destroy him" for having told on Ravi about their incompetence. Who did Ravi protect in that situation? The board that had gone out to destroy the poor person, with lies and sabotage, instead of the teacher who had done so much work for him so many years. It was not about values, truth or loyalty. It was about business. It was better to lose one rather than many. It was more promising to support those who are crooked rather than those who have values. Machiavellic.
Of course, again, I take responsibility for having bought the fraud but, when I signed up for it, this is not what they showed me. They sold me a beautiful package of seva, spirituality, altruism. I did not know about the frauds of the seva projects, I did not imagine all the Sri Sri enterprises he'd eventually create, the houses Ajay would buy, the jewelry Bhanu would carry, and the extravagantly luxurious life he'd lead. He told me I had nothing to worry about, that he'd take care of all of my needs. After the first year of romance, he did not take care of anything nor care. (You know the poem "I promise"? Well, you can imagine what I think of it today. Beautiful BS).
There was a full time teacher who was absolutely dynamic, incredible, she started many centers in Europe. She was amazing but she got pregnant. I still today cannot believe he turned his back on her that very moment. She got a low stipend all those years, of course she had no savings, no medical insurance, no home, and a baby to take care of. She was immediately on her own the minute she was of no use to him any longer. And as quickly as she got pregnant, she was forgotten in the movement.
The lack of financial support and accountability created a lot of stress in the full-time teachers community. Even though HE taught us to have faith in him, reminded us he'd take care of us, that we'd never be without a place to stay, food to eat, we all worried, regardless of the age, number of years with RS, number of years serving the organization. The longer we were in the movement, the more we knew the organization did not take care of anything. We had all had our own experiences, yet we all had hidden hopes something would change, and sometimes, we believed it was about "cleaning karma". Many teachers ended up finding ways to ensure their future in corrupt manners. I knew of a senior teacher who manipulated their students to donate a lot of money at the end of the TTC for his personal account. Even when I was a devotee, I thought that was dirty, yet Ravi was proud of his astute teacher, he actually got more and more promoted. Using the status of a senior teacher, someone even went as far as getting a wealthy devotee to put a down payment on a house for him (they learned from the best, what can I say). Most senior full timers I knew were constantly complaining about all the exploitation that went on. You'd be surprised to know most star teachers have been complaining non-stop about the exploitation and unethical practices of the AoL and wish to quit every other minute. They are all so unhappy but put on the happy AoL face when they meet students/clients. Most don't have the courage to leave. "What will I do if I leave?" Somehow, one is trapped by this idea he inflicted in us that we'd never make it in the world. That, no matter how terrible it all was in the organization, it was better than in the world.
I remember a star teacher who whined all the time. He was so stressed out about his lack of money and home, he finally told Ravi he wanted a job. Ravi told him he'd never make it in the world. The poor guy actually was quite incompetent in the world before joining the AoL, but, upon the divine warnings, he was so neurotic he actually only got a job with an AoL devotee, who finally, withdrew his offer. The man went back crawling to the AoL, like Ravi had "predicted", and after a few years, has been promoted endlessly within the system. Was that a prediction or manipulation? He himself told me I would not make it in the world, that I'd burn out, and, in two years, beg him to let me go back. The fear his warnings/curses created in me paralyzed me for a long time. Today, I know it is part of his sociopathic manipulations many buy. If he cannot have you, then noone else can – is part of his "work ethics."
I know RS started changing many policies in recent years, making it more proper for full timers mainly in fear of legal suits, as it obviously started being a problem in some countries. But, as long as he still has them under stipends, no medical insurance, no home, no formal, official contracts, and not giving real accountability and reports of where the money really goes, it is a big fat lie and exploitation a-la-"made in SriSrilandia."
There was quite a drama when the US board, or rather, the president, tried to fire some full timers because he decided they did not do enough (or rather, because he never liked them to begin with). How on earth do you fire people who work as volunteers and who gave their lives for your cause, working practically for free for you for so long? How ethical, spiritual and caring is that?
They have now created rules such as one needs to bring at least 30 people per month in order to remain a full-time teacher. The funniest thing is people actually fight to become full timers and the organization actually believes it can fire people who work under illegal terms. I don't know what people have in their heads, but many think being a full-timer is some enlightened accomplishment. Wrong. There is nothing special about full-timers, other than they are 100% absolutely exploited and brain damaged. Full-timers are usually just people who are "available" or easily manipulated or that can provide something he needs at that time (former full-timer talking about full-timers). In the old days, at least many full-timers were people who believed in "a cause" and/or had some sincere quest for spirituality, or wanted enlightenment (like most former TMers). However, in most recent years, being a full-timer is an excuse for many to flee from the responsibilities of life, especially many young people who have no idea what to do otherwise. Sadly, if you observe, most full timers (not all, but most) are people who would not make it in the world but who in the AoL are considered stars.
There is exploitation even in the creation of materials such as CDs. I know of at least two singers and composers whose bhajans are the most popular in the AoL and who left the organization due to the unethical financial practices. Of course, RS considers he owns all their compositions because, according to him, he is the inspiration behind everything and he gave them the talent. Thus, if they made CDs he wanted them to donate all the earnings to the organization (of course, to support the seva projects). Hello? These musicians also need to make a living! They deserve being compensated for their talents and work! Who is whose inspiration? Conclusion: he now has all his Indian boys recording these songs, as theirs. If someone did that to Sri Sri, he'd get them for copyright issues. But, as usual, he never does anything wrong. He is perfect. Everyone else is the problem.
If anyone went to Sri Sri to ask for more money, or medical insurance, or that one needed a home, his answer often was, in a victimized tone, "There is no money. You have no idea how expensive it is to keep the ashrams and the seva projects. We never have enough money." You went in with a righteous request, but you'd leave feeling like crap, believing his lie about not having money.
There are still so many teachers out there, especially the non full-timers and the new and young ones who still believe in all that "ra-ra" stuff he presents. Everyone has his/her turn to experience the bitter taste of AoL truth, it is just a matter of time and how one processes it eventually. Some decide to go with it by blending in more with psychological dissonance, some struggle hard to leave and face the reality of perhaps not being able to reinsert themselves in the world and job market, and that once one leaves, the grace of the guru is no longer existent.
Again, it is all sugar coated glamour. The truth behind it all is not that sweet. Maybe Maharishi was right when he described his pundit boy as "sugar coated poison." Ravi's machiavellic thinking and actions, combined with his lack of remorse, arrogance and charisma/charm make him a true sociopath.
Today, I look at all the Sri Sri enterprises he has (real estate, software, body products, books and tapes, etc), the properties Ajay owns in the US, his cars, his gadgets, his education, the jewelry Bhanu carries, their first class travels and stays in 8 star hotels, the pictures of the LA center, etc. and I think, "Man, either you are a lousy money manager or you simply are a gold-medal bastard."
A Sri Sri Sweatshop is a working environment with unhealthy conditions that are considered by many people of good mental health to be difficult or dangerous, usually where the workers have few opportunities to address their situation. This can include exposure to harmful relations, hazardous situations, extreme psychological pressure, or abuse from employers. Sri Sri Sweatshop workers often work long hours for little pay, regardless of any laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage.
For those who are against human exploitation, avoid buying products made in Srisrilandia.
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Your posts are more a shock than anything to many who hold RS and AOL in high opinion. If RS and AOL are such a trash organization, what made people like you join it as a fulltimer? Is it because RS fakes about his enlightenment and spiritual aspirants get duped considering him as a realized master?
Whatever non-sense people may say, but one who can indulge in sexual deception (contrast it with sex) is not a realized master. I remember a story told by Sri Ramana Maharshi about a Gyani (a realized master) who used to have a physical relationship with a prostitute. The stories about this spread all over the place where he used to live. Finally, king called the prostitute. The prostitute claimed that she has a child also with that sage and to prove her claim, she asked the king to arrange a dance-party where the sage should be invited. This was done and the prostitute came with her small son. She started to dance in the assembly. After a while, her son started to cry and she told the sage, "Please pick your son." The sage picked the child in his arms. The whole assembly started laughing at the sage. The king asked him what type of sage you are who can have illicit relationship with a prostitute and begot an illicit child. The sage looked at a stone-mound nearby and said to the assembly, "If it is true that I am always in Self, then that mound should break into two." As soon as he said, the stone-mound broke into two and people started to apologize to the sage.
Ramana Maharshi explained further that a realized master may have some karma of bad name or illicit relationship to suffer based on prarabdha (karma done in previous lives). But, the master does not associate with any karma and remained merged in Self.
So, yes, a realized master (Gyani) can have sexual relationship also. Then, how to know whether one is a actually realized. Ramana Maharshi told that only a Gyani can identify about other Gyani. But, a normal person can get some clues by feeling inner peace in presence of a Gyani.
Now, all the stories you told about RS make it clear that he is not enlightened. So, is "faking enlightenment by RS" the most singular reason why even smart people like you got so badly duped? In other words, would you or other fulltimers not have gotten duped if you would have recognized that RS is a yoga-teacher, but not an enlightened master?
I know an AOL teacher (who is highly educated) who told me that RS is able to work miracles also. He told some of his personal experiences. In your experience, did you find RS having some Siddhis? Actually, having these Siddhis is not necessarily sign of high consciousness level? If Kundalini gets awakened along Ida or Pingala, one gets some siddhis but remain a low-level person. Whereas kundalini getting awakened along Sushumna channel, lead to high consciousness level (plus siddhis also in some cases but not all cases).
It is a pity how much bad name these rascals are creating in the minds of innocent people. One trusts a master more than even one's relatives. And if such a master turns out to be fake, how much frustration and agony it would cause? And what to say when one has given up lots of time, energy, money and even lives for such a fake master? I can feel for all such unfortunate people. May they find their Guru within!
- February 3, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- AoL-Free said...
"Would you or other fulltimers not have gotten duped if you would have recognized that RS is a yoga teacher, but not an enlightened master?"
I think so! Or like someone commented in an earlier article, if he was transparent and called it a business using knowledge, rather than deceiving people by calling it a spiritual movement, seva oriented organization. He has no siddhis. His predictions are most of the time wrong, and when they are right, it is just luck. And, as you well said, it is not an indication of higher state of consciousness.
Well said!
"And if such a master turns out to be fake, how much frustration and agony it would cause? And what to say when one has given up lots of time, energy, money and even lives for such a fake master? I can feel for all such unfortunate people. May they find their Guru within!"
Thank you.
- February 3, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- AoL-Free said...
Being "highly educated" or "intelligent" does not necessarily mean one is not capable of being duped, manipulated, brain-washed, sucked by fraud. I am highly educated and had a good career before I gave it all to him, in the name of spirituality, selflessness, spiritual growth, surrender to the enlightened master. Not very intelligent. My high education did not do any service to me then, but it served Ravi for marketing his organization as one with many highly educated and socially well situation teachers and followers. Even intelligent people can easily be brain-washed. :(
- February 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM
It comes back to hypocrisy. Full-timers don't work for money - but for ideals, and their missionary zeal helps them live through all hardships - their dedication is really to be admired.
But for RS & Family to live an opulent lifestyle and telling full timers to make do with little is just exploitation. So much for taking responsibility - RS talks of being responsible - but himself acts irresponsibly.
All the money which goes into financing his family's opulent lifestyle can easily be used in seva projects and taking better care of teachers. If you cannot take of your own, how can you take care of others.
But RS says he is taking care and RS is an honorable man!
- February 3, 2010 at 8:52 PM
A nice commentary on Ravi Ravi's stupid writings. BTW Ravi Ravi is now Ravi Ravi Ravi.
- February 4, 2010 at 5:16 AM
hi Klim can the ex teachers help in getting the long kriya CD. A big deal is made about this long kriya.
- February 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM
- AoL-Free said...
What do you mean "A big deal is made about this long kriya"? It's on the internet. Google it. But I don't recommend doing it unless you want to fry some brain cells.
As suggested by another former teacher/friend, don't return your manuals and tapes, you paid a fortune for them (and they are not sacred after all). I think he is right.
- February 4, 2010 at 9:27 AM
" Everyone has his/her turn to experience the bitter taste of AoL truth, it is just a matter of time and how one processes it eventually. Some decide to go with it by blending in more with psychological dissonance, some struggle hard to leave and face the reality of perhaps not being able to reinsert themselves in the world and job market, and that once one leaves, the grace of the guru is no longer existent".
Klim , you have summed it up so well !
- February 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Another interesting blog, the writer stops at a very interesting point,must have been threatened to stop writing.
- February 4, 2010 at 11:35 AM
compliments KLIM. your dissection of AOL point by point is going to help lot of uncertain and uncourageous people. physical damage to body and brain can be treated but mental damage takes long to be recognized. the treatment/healing is even more difficult.those doing mind control for evil are greater enemies of mankind. how can they get away by doing greater sin by faking 'seva'
- February 4, 2010 at 1:15 PM
Old soft saying- man gets a disease he deserves. people get leader they deserve.
..Is it so people get the spiritual leader they deserve?
- February 4, 2010 at 1:21 PM
KLIM most of the times politicians, celebrities, bureaucrats 'used' by AOL don t know the actual aim. than there are people in Aol who drag them through their personal contacts or obligations.most of them are neither followers or willing to become one.they ,in fact may be 'use & throw' material as long as they are important.
If they know the actual game plan they may not willing to be used.If they are easy to be used they are prompt in distancing themselves from anything controversial.
This is bound to happen one day. its a matter of time.
Delete propaganda,unknowingly supporting celebrities, politicians and bureaucrats and see the result/impact
- February 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM
KLim your revelations or experiences will not go a waste.So far adverse comments about AOL are limited and hidden beneath 'all is well'.
The contents of this biog look truthful from a person betrayed and trying to heal.Revenge does not seems to be primary aim.
Construction of an organization takes years. deserved downfall much lesser time. Who knows!
- February 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Klim i have observed AOL people target news paper chief editor or prominent correspondents to manage local press. The aim is obviously to get good coverage multiple times times for any event.
During their functions you can see them as either devotee or pampered baby.
All the events hype is more than reality. Numbers alway outnumber.
Is this spirituality we deserve?
- February 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM
For gods sake can anybody tell me/anyone why you need a course to tell yourself how to live life or enjoy?
your upbringing, family and moral values, work culture,willingness to work for family, community, state, country and mankind sincerely not enough to sail you smoothly for rest of your life?
Do you need a guru ,many of them evil, to to guide you to 'enlighten'.
moreover what this so called enlightenment will bring you/
probably its beyond the purview pf 'poor AOLiers'.
Wisdom probably can not be taught.it comes from within. that is why most of AOLiers probably can't be helped and are best left on their own.
- February 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Today we are facing an epidemic of spirituality, new age movements.they may be worst than plague or polio epidemic. every other person is a believer or follower of some paranormal group. Have we lost faith or confidence in ourself? Pressure of life is so costly?
Parents are our first teachers followed by scientific teachers during school & college life.Are their teachings not enough?
What is taught in AOL- is it spirituality?
Amitabh Bachhan , Sachin Tendulkar,and others, are they successful because of AOL course?Can you pass IIT/IIM/AIPMT/CAT with the help of any course? It takes planned strategy focused mind and shear commitment for anything like this.
Biggest enemy of focused mind is any such spiritual movement.
Temples at least don t have pear pressure, coercive persuasion, dynamic mind control.
Skill is not in joining a cult but in withstanding the pressure of joining.
- February 4, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- AoL-Free said...
Someone sent the following message assuming I am someone I am not - a teacher who also left the movement, whose stories I have shared. I won't publish the name of the person to protect her identity - she has already gone through quite a lot. But this is how noone ever reveals the wrong-doings of the AoL.
"Dearest xxx
Jai Gurudev
I know you are hurting but do not say or do anything that you will regret later on
With Lots of Love"
The person writes as anonymous.
Well, I am not that person, and if I was, I regret not having done this earlier. It would have been great if any of old timers, senior teachers who knew so many of the AoL scandals would have spoken up earlier. It would have saved one too many from many abuses and deceptions.
- February 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM
It looks like you're getting a lot of interesting posts from AoL people. My favorite is the 'be very scared' one that you posted under the "SEX" post. Why do I think that SRS might be the one feeling a bit scared under that faux "nothing touches me" spiritual demeanor. These cult leaders have much to lose and I think they are much more vulnerable than they may seem. Your blog is probably putting a huge crack in his foundation as we speak (write:)
I couldn't agree more with your response to the quote someone posted of RS's reaction to Guruphilac (also under the SEX post),KLIM:
"For non-AoLers that is sign of big ego, manipulation, psychopathology."
Aren't you glad you can recognize that now? Must be heaven.
- February 4, 2010 at 8:19 PM
To all naysayers and cynics:
Just because one has been duped by a charlatan does not mean that spiritual education, meditation, or vedic tradition has no place. Despite being in the same boat as KLIM, i'm not a cynic. I do think the knowledge has tremendous value, and is a genuine force of good.
If only RS had been a true spiritual leader instead of the pretender he is. I think people get conned because they are optimistic and want to believe in a person who is a man of action and embodies these ideals. In their eagerness to believe, they see what they want to see - instead of thinking critically and facing facts.
There are and have been genuine spiritual leaders throughout history, who have had tremendous impact on civilization. People like Nanak, Kabir, Gandhi, Ramakrishna Paramhansa to name a few.
I am sure if RS was genuine, this situation would not have arisen. The reason con's are so successful is because they are good at imitating the real thing. Critical thinking is good, but it does not have to be negative thinking.
- February 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM
- AoL-Free said...
The problem is "critical thinking" is considered "negative thinking" in the AoL. If one was allowed to exercise critical thinking, the flaws would become too evident. How could then SSSRS pretend for so long? The saddest thing is frauds like RS make people doubt knowledge and spirituality.
- February 4, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Klim, I am getting shaken with the posts with new revelations. Why don't you publish a proof so that RS can be convicted? That would be your ultimate service (SEVA) to innocent and ignorant all over the globe? People would be careful at least in future about such CULTS?. I don't know about others, but I am very anxious to see the day when RS gets arrested.
- February 4, 2010 at 11:27 PM
George Orwell, in his 1949 essay Reflections on Gandhi, said that "saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent".
Going by the excesses and megalomania of modern day gurus they should be accused guilty until they prove innocence. Rajneesh started this. He made people work for long hours in unhealthy conditions in his ashram and ranch. The principle of surrender to Guru as a test of spirituality is highly misused. This was also perfected by Maharishi Mahesh yogi.
Ravi Ravi's sweatshop is again a copy of the same business model.
- February 5, 2010 at 5:37 AM
- Art of Leaving said...
"I am very anxious to see the day when RS gets arrested."
Measures are needed at a global level to start addressing the subtle and not-so-subtle forms of abuse and exploitation to which charismatic spiritual leaders and their multinational movements/cults are prone. I think some of the abuses (e.g. sexual abuse, threatening people, etc) may already fall under the thematic mandates of certain United Nations Special Rapporteurs.
UN Rapporteurs can write urgent appeals and letters of allegation to governments in whose territories abuses take place, requesting them to investigate and address alleged abuses. The governments in question are required to report their interventions to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who can thereupon make further recommendations. In the end the UN publishes a report about the cases. This cannot replace a judicial process, but it would be a start, especially if a large group of people together submit their cases. At the very least it will serve as a public embarrassment to the governments and "spiritual" organisations concerned, and hopefully get them to start cleaning up their act.
There are probably special forms of abuse taking place within "spiritual" movements like AoL that may still need to be recognised as forms of human rights abuse by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Submissions by psychotherapists about victims will help a lot in this regard. It would be ideal if the UN appoints a Special Rapporteur on Spiritual Abuse to report on these issues specifically.
If such measures are in place, it would make it easy to get AoL's Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council removed.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:53 AM
Adding to Art of Leaving's comment on this:
"I am very anxious to see the day when RS gets arrested."
I think it's possible that if enough people come forward with abuse stories, RS will fall. He's probably really fragile. If all this is true about him, he's hanging by a thread of lies. Though he may never be arrested, the devotees could hold him accountable.
I believe in the power of numbers. If the number of people saying RS is abusive sexually etc... continues to grow, truth could begin to dawn in the inner circle (if even just a little). They are the ones with a lot of power. It could just take one or two of them to highly influence the rest. These people may be avid and blind devotees, but I've seen devotees, one at a time, begin to turn on the GURU. It can be done!
If one person came forward and said RS had sexually abused them, people can easily say they are lying and oust them. But if more and more people say it, it could become just simply too hard to deny. If it's true what KLIM says, that some teachers know there are problems and have even left because of them, then they may just step forward and speak out.
I think the more truth is put out there about Guru abuses, whether it be this blog, in the news, or among AOL groups, the weaker the Guru becomes-maybe even unknowingly.
- February 5, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- AoL-Free said...
Jivani, you are right. I certainly do hope more people come up with their stories but most I know are scared and ashamed. As you have seen, AoL uses the power of threat to keep people scared enough to feel powerless, and someone has already been accused for my actions in this blog. I, on the other hand, feel relieved for having finally spoken up.
- February 5, 2010 at 9:13 AM
@Mr. SL Shastri
We are indeed seeing maharishi's ghost. I remember in one of the tapes RS talks about how maharishi would ask his chelas to arrange chairs one way only to come back 20 minutes later to scold them for doing so and demanding them to arrange chairs another way. He then says it is very hard training.
It is obvious to anyone, but the victim, that maharishi is playing a psychological game designed to bring about blind obedience. By suppressing his personality completely - the victim takes on the personalities of the aggressor. This is highly unnatural, and will only produce a social robot. And worse these things are perpetrated as ancient tradition. It is only MMY's tradition. A real guru ( and a half mature human being) will know the futility of playing psychological games. They will be themselves and let things unfold naturally.
But RS has been twisted by MMY since childhood. He is a guru robot - he will say all the right things, but not out of a sense of authenticity - just as a matter of programming. It is a textbook case of victim becoming an aggressor later in life - believing that is how it should be.
- February 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- Art of Leaving said...
Sorry, those links giving info about UN Urgent Appeals and Letters of Allegation got cut off midway in my previous comment, so here they are again in full:
Unfortunately, the UN's web sites are really a hopeless maze to navigate. They really need to make themselves more accessible to victims of human rights abuses!
- February 5, 2010 at 6:02 PM
PW said..But RS has been twisted by MMY since childhood.
Even if this were true, which I doubt, it doesn't take blame away from She She. He is a clone of Maharishi who tried to take what his guru had created. It's like a contest among teenaged boys, who can fart the loudest. They both leave something solid in their loin cloths which other people have to clean up.
- February 8, 2010 at 9:59 AM
KLim see cult guru play book.I think most of points apply to AOL also. post your comments.
- February 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM
If there is one thing that I would like to be investigated is the 'seva' of cleaning out the garbage dump at the ashram. When I did my TTC1, I was given this task, along with many others. The dump had glass bottles, plastic bottles and USED sanitary napkins.
I insisted that I be given a pair of gloves to even touch the stuff at the dump. I understand 'guru-seva' in gurukulas could have meant anything like collecting water out of a well or twigs for the hearth. But tell me, at this day and age, when diseases are rampant, which irresponsible organization would make loving devotees clean out a dump without giving them proper precautionary gloves? Did I need to demand gloves?
I immediately thought of all those poor BBMP folks who clean out garbage daily from the city, most of them without gloves. Why cant organizations come out with a seva of presenting gloves to such poor folk?
I just had to write this so that the org can wake up and see health hazards which, when we are in the thick of the jingoistic (?) feelings, intense desire to seek enlightenment, etc.
Maybe I used my intellect, but hey, I am a scientist with a Ph D in biochem who is also fond of seeking spirituality. AOL asks us to drop the mind and intellect, I hope they can someday set an example by dropping the intellect when they are counting the moneybags...
I dont want to state my name because I dont want to be bugged by morons who are mostly living in a Fool's Paradise.
- February 9, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I sent this blog link to a guy who would be shortly becoming a AOL teacher, and who has been associated with it for over 3 years. He rejected the blog saying that instead of arguing against the blog, he would prefer to medidate and serve. I guess many would be like this only, and Klim, why after 3 years in AOL, still people want to continue and do fulltime. Do you mean to say that they would not have got a clue of any negativity despite their 3 year association?
- February 10, 2010 at 8:26 AM
Many teachers and members who have faced problems with AOL and who are not speaking out due to fear etc. should come out of their shell and save the mankind ( I really mean it.) When we read this blog, not sure how many innocents are joining for SK ( Frying their mind / brain!!) and how many would be enrolling as teachers, and how many would be going for DSN etc. Please Please, ex AOL-ers, or current AOL-ers, if you are agreeing to this blog it is high time you speak out. Or atleast, you speak out that this blog is total false ( by giving evidences). You can always be anonymous. Unless more and more people speak out the truth, I guess the strength is not going to come.
- February 10, 2010 at 8:31 AM
"I hope they can someday set an example by dropping the intellect when they are counting the moneybags..."
This one's good.
I think the dropping of intellect is for the victims not the victimizeer. In my expereince most AOL teachers are highly money minded and obnoxiously greedy for the latest gadgets and luxuries. Like their guru they love publicity and would give anything to hobnob with the rich and famous.
- February 11, 2010 at 1:56 AM
- Art of Leaving said...
"Please Please, ex AOL-ers, or current AOL-ers, if you are agreeing to this blog it is high time you speak out."
I agree with you, Anonymous, and I would like to make the same appeal.
Unfortunately, it takes a long time for people to start sharing their experiences. It took me a few years of reading similar blogs before I finally had the guts to speak out, and I was not even in AoL for that long.
I was so relieved to see others speaking out and I received a lot of consolation from it. But at the same time I felt, well, if they are doing it, then there's no need for me to add my voice. I can remain comfortably quiet and watch from the sidelines.
I think people need to realise that every voice is badly needed. You really owe it to those who are taking great risks to speak out, and also to yourselves. It's a way to claim back your own integrity, and it helps to heal and make sense of what happened.
- February 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM
In most Indian spiritual traditions - a lot of emphasis is placed on menial seva of the guru as a means of breaking the ego. It is not just in AOL.
Of course it is just medicine...its not food. One can't do that fulltime.
People should realize that all guru's are revolutionaries. If you want to sit in your comfort zone don't sign up for it. Nobody is a fool...people blame the guru for cheerleading them on the path, but it was a choice they made. They just want to blame someone else.
That said, I would agree that tradition gives the guru unchecked power - which can easily be abused.
- February 11, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Dude said...People should realize that all guru's are revolutionaries.
This is silly. Most gurus are assholes. One in 10,000 is a decent human being. 3 or 4 in 6 billion know the self.
- February 12, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Whether you like it or not, there is an asshole in everybody, including you and me - even people like gandhi.
It is easy for a saint to be white while living in their ivory towers...it is tough to live spiritual knowledge while living in the world. Please spare us this morality B.S .
And yes...spiritual knowledge by it's very nature is disruptive...and I mean that in a good way. Even a "good" guru will never be accepted kindly by the world. People will always find fault with a guru, to avoid living in spiritual knowledge.
Let us see a guru as he is...a real person, with all kinds of qualities in him. To label them as assholes is also not critical thinking!!!
- February 15, 2010 at 6:19 AM
I see where you are coming from. I actually suspect that AOL doesnt have as much money as everyone thinks. If they did, they wouldnt have to nickel and dime for everything. Its delusional to think that being a full-time teacher can be a career. At best its for independently wealthy folks or someone who doesnt need to work. In these groups, the teachers (such as yourself) do the brunt of the work, for little reward. Maybe you should have bailed out a lot earlier than you did. Still, I commend you for starting this blog.
- March 9, 2010 at 1:02 AM


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Earthshock was the sixth and penultimate serial of season 19 of Doctor Who. It was the final regular appearance of Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, who sacrificed himself in the closing moments of part four.
It was notable for its high ratings, the deliberately unannounced return of the Cybermen, and the death of Adric. Indeed, this serial and Time-Flight together offered producer John Nathan-Turner his highest consistent chart positions. Earthshock was the only serial in JNT's time as the producer whose episodes were all in the top fifty of programmes watched on British television.
JNT took a now-well-known publicity gamble with this serial by deciding that he wanted to keep the return of the Cybermen a surprise. Normally, there was a public gallery overlooking the studio floor at Television Centre which allowed public viewing of proceedings. For Earthshock, JNT had this area closed and security kept people out. Nathan-Turner also turned down a Radio Times photoshoot to ensure this secret did not leak out.
The death of Adric was also a considerable gamble since no long-running companion had ever been killed on Doctor Who before. Special, downbeat titles were commissioned for the end of part four, making the final part the only episode, as of 2018[update], to have no end theme music and play only silent credits.
While there is no doubt that JNT and his team absolutely intended Adric's unambiguous death, the ending of the story has been materially changed by Big Finish's The Boy That Time Forgot, during which it was revealed Adric did not die but went on to live in a bubble universe the Fifth Doctor accidentally created, before finally crossing back into the normal universe in Victorian London.
The story got a cinema treatment in BFI Southbank on the 17 November 2018. Along with this experience, there was a Q&A with the writer Eric Saward and actor Matthew Waterhouse.[1]
Synopsis Edit
A conference to unite military powers against the Cybermen is taking place and the Cybermen plot to destroy the Earth by crashing a space freighter into it. The Doctor must stop them, whatever the cost...
Plot Edit
Part one Edit
Lieutenant Scott and his team climb up a bleak hillside on Earth, escorting Professor Kyle to a camp set up by Scott's team. The scanning equipment at the campsite is directed at a cave to detect mammalian life forms. Kyle had been part of a scientific expedition investigating the caves for fossil remains, but the expedition has disappeared. The lack of readings suggests they are all dead. Kyle's knowledge of the tunnels is necessary to direct Scott and his team into the caves to find out what happened, while two troopers remain outside to maintain a constant scan. As they investigate, the squad is being stalked by two dark figures.
Meanwhile, in the TARDIS, Adric begins arguing with the Fifth Doctor about the lack of attention and respect he receives compared to Tegan or Nyssa. Finally, he declares that he wishes to return to his species' new home planet of Terradon, which the Doctor loudly proclaims is not possible. However, Adric is insistent that he can calculate the coordinates to guide the TARDIS back into E-Space; to the Doctor's displeasure, Adric begins to write down his calculations.
Scott's squad splits into two groups, but a strange jangling sound comes over the communications system, and one group ceases contact. Outside, a flare appears on the outside scanner. Walters and Snyder, who remained outside, see more life-forms appear on the scanner — the TARDIS crew, which have just landed in the caves. Scott instantly assumes that the newcomers must be responsible for the deaths, especially when he is informed that one of the new life signs shows two heartbeats.
While Adric computes his calculations, the Doctor has gone for a walk in the caves. With Tegan and Nyssa, he examines the fossils of dinosaurs on the cave walls, musing that he had always wanted to go back and determine exactly how they died. As the wounded party is making slow progress, Snyder goes in to help, but they are attacked by the dark figures. The jamming increases and Snyder is reduced to a pile of smoking remains. As the survivors start to investigate, they continue to be picked off one by one.
Scott and the remainder of his squad come across the Doctor and his companions and capture them. Scott accuses the Doctor of the murders and, while the Doctor tries to convince him otherwise, the dark figures continue their approach. Digging away at a recent rockfall, they discover the remains of the scientists as well as a metal hatch which begins to emit a trilling sound; Scott orders the Doctor to open the hatch. The dark figures pick up their pace and begin to attack as everyone dives for cover.
The Doctor realises that the attackers are androids, which is why they did not show up on the scans. The androids appear to be defending the hatch and shrug off the troopers' counter-attacks. Kyle recognises the sound the androids are making and realises that they were the ones who murdered the others. As an android focuses its gaze on the Doctor, the image is transmitted elsewhere to their masters... the Cybermen. The Cyber-Leader orders that the androids "destroy them at once."
Part two Edit
Inside the TARDIS, a signal is detected. Adric wanders out of the TARDIS, trying to locate the Doctor and determine the source of the signal. He is able to distract one of the androids long enough for Scott and his team to destroy it. The other one is subjected to an intense fire attack, also resulting in its destruction.
The Doctor has realised that the signal is being transmitted to whatever is inside the hatch. He runs back to the TARDIS and is able to jam the transmission. He and Adric return with the Doctor's toolkit. Tegan and Nyssa usher the rest back into the TARDIS where they will be safe as the Doctor and Adric open the hatch to discover an explosive device within. The Doctor fiddles around with the bomb and inadvertently reactivates it, but together with Adric, disarms it before it detonates.
Returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor informs the others that they are going to trace the source of the transmission. He then thanks Adric for his help in the cave and apologises for their earlier argument, telling him he's willing to try and enter E-Space. Adric apologises too for overreacting and reveals he doesn't actually want to return home, he was just trying to make a point. The Cybermen, are puzzled as to why the bomb failed to detonate. Reviewing the recorded images transmitted by the androids, they see the TARDIS. They realise the Doctor is involved, and begin to review their past encounters with the Time Lord.
Meanwhile, out in space, a freighter is being inspected by Earth security forces while replenishing its supplies and crew. However, the morale of the crew is low, kept going only because of the promise of their bonus for delivering the cargo on time. Ringway, one of the bridge crew, wonders if the bonus is worth it, with several disappearances having already taken place. Berger seems to think that it is, and suggests Ringway adopt a more cheery attitude towards the crew to maintain their morale and his.
Having arrived on board, the Doctor goes to explore the freighter with Adric deciding to tag along also. However, Berger spots the two travellers on the camera and tells the captain, a woman named Briggs. Briggs orders that Berger sound the alarm.
The Doctor and Adric hear the alarm and start back towards the TARDIS. Hearing screams, Adric and the Doctor run to investigate. Adric spots the bodies of two crewmen and goes to examine the bodies. Unknown to them, Ringway arrives behind them and raises his gun. Having examined the bodies, they turn to face an armed Ringway, who states that "on this ship we execute murderers..."
Part three Edit
Ringway escorts the two travellers to meet the captain, Briggs, who is only concerned about the bonus.
Scott and Kyle start to worry about the Doctor and Adric, although only Scott says anything. Scott announces that he wants to go find the Doctor, but Nyssa replies that the Doctor will not thank them for taking such a risk. Scott takes no notice. Tegan, also wishing to help, goes with Scott and his remaining soldiers.
The Cyber-Leader decides that it is time to take control of the freighter, and orders a unit of Cybermen to be activated. The unit marches on the bridge and is spotted on one of the monitors. Briggs orders a blockade set up outside the bridge, despite the Doctor pleading that her men won't stand a chance if they do that. Sure enough, the Cybermen effortlessly blast through the barricade. At the same time, Ringway turns on the crew and announces that he now works for the Cybermen, having grown tired of Briggs. The Doctor disarms him and closes the bridge doors before the Cybermen can get inside. Briggs seems confident that they can hold out until they get back to Earth, as there are only a few Cybermen; when Adric inquires as to how many cargo containers there are, she realises that all 15,000 are probably full of Cybermen.
As Scott, Tegan and the others kill one Cyberman and damage a second, the Cyber-Leader has his troops soften one of the bridge doors with a thermal lance. The Doctor taps into the antimatter storage system and uses it to stabilise the door just as a Cyberman breaks through, with the result that the Cyberman is fused into the door. The Cyber-Leader had also fitted explosive charges to the other bridge door, however. Just before it goes to detonate them, the Cyberman that escaped from Scott and Tegan crawls up. His lieutenant points out that all the crew have been accounted for and the Cyber-Leader erroneously concludes that Ringway lied about the crew numbers.
The explosives are detonated, destroying the bridge door. The Cybermen take the bridge, and the Leader has Ringway killed for his "deception". The Doctor then sourly jokes, "You never change; always the perfect guest." The Doctor and the crew members all watch as the additional Cybermen are revived, in order to deal with the other humans. As they march through the hold the Leader declares, "My army awakes, Doctor!" The Doctor looks on, horrified, as the Cybermen march through the hold...
Part four Edit
The Cybermen fit a device to the ship's computer which locks it on course to collide with Earth. The Cyber-Leader then explains his mission - several galactic powers are going to meet on Earth that day and hold a conference that will unite them in a war against the Cybermen. Their original plan was to use the bomb to virtually destroy Earth, commandeer the freighter and use the army to kill anyone who survived. Due to the Doctor's interference, the Cyber-Leader has switched to his backup plan - crash the freighter into Earth. As it is powered by antimatter, the resulting blast will be every bit as devastating as the bomb would have been.
Tegan gets separated from Scott and his men and is eventually captured. Scott returns to the TARDIS but is followed by a pair of Cybermen. The troopers kill the Cybermen and take their guns, but Kyle is killed in the process. Tegan, meanwhile, is taken to the bridge. Noting the Doctor's reaction when she is brought into the bridge, the Cybermen comments that emotions must be a severe handicap for the Doctor. The Doctor argues that emotions are what makes life worth living - in response, the Cyber-Leader orders that Tegan be killed. The Doctor throws himself in front of Tegan, and the Cyber-Leader remarks that emotions are a disadvantage, as now he only has to threaten to kill Tegan for the Doctor to obey him.
Scott and the troopers leave the TARDIS again, as the Cyber-Leader decides to leave the ship in the TARDIS. Briggs, Berger and Adric are left on-board so that a few remaining Cybermen can observe their reactions, and thus better understand human weaknesses. The Doctor and Cybermen leave in the TARDIS, and Scott takes out the Cybermen guarding the bridge. Briggs wants to abandon ship, but Adric tells her that he might be able to override the device controlling the ship's computer. He overrides one segment of it and Berger tries to bring the ship out of warp, but this has an unexpected effect - the freighter jumps into a time warp and goes backwards in time. Tegan is relieved at this, believing the Earth to be safe. Her relief is soon shattered when the Doctor points out that it has made the situation far worse - not only will Earth still be destroyed, but with the freighter now back in an earlier point of its history, the planet's whole existence will be nullified.
Adric overrides another part of the control device, bringing the freighter out of warp - but still perilously close to Earth. Briggs decides that it's time to abandon ship, but Adric is still determined to break the codes. Scott drags him into the escape pod, only for Adric to jump out at the last second and continue his efforts. Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor points out that they have travelled back 65 million years - at about the time the Earth collided with an object which killed the dinosaurs. Tegan realises that the object was really the freighter and that rather than erasing Earth's history, the explosion will form a key part of it.
While Adric continues in his efforts, Scott signals the TARDIS and informs them that Adric's still on-board. The Cyber-Leader decides to kill the TARDIS crew, but Tegan jumps on him and the Doctor breaks up Adric's gold-plated Mathematics Achievement badge into the Leader's chest unit. The maddened and asphyxiating Leader fires its gun aimlessly, damaging the TARDIS console in the process. The Doctor grabs the gun and shoots the Leader, killing it.
Adric is closing in on fully deactivating the control device, but is thwarted when a damaged Cyberman tries to shoot him. The shot misses Adric and destroys the freighter's controls instead, leaving no chance of altering the freighter's course. Adric serenely muses that now he will never know if he was right. The Doctor tries to save Adric, while Nyssa quickly deals with the Cyber-Lieutenant. The TARDIS console is too damaged. The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan watch helplessly as the freighter explodes, killing Adric. As Nyssa and Tegan begin to weep, the Doctor remains silent, shocked at his failure in saving his companion and friend...
The episode ends with silent credits to mark Adric's death, rolled over an image of his shattered star-shaped badge.
Cast Edit
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Adric - Matthew Waterhouse
- Tegan - Janet Fielding
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Lieutenant Scott - James Warwick
- Professor Kyle - Clare Clifford
- Captain Briggs - Beryl Reid
- Berger - June Bland
- Walters - Steve Morley
- Snyder - Suzi Arden
- Mitchell - Ann Holloway
- Trooper Baines - Anne Clements
- Second Trooper - Mark Straker
- Cyber-Leader - David Banks
- Ringway - Alec Sabin
- Cyber-Lieutenant - Mark Hardy
- First Crew Member - Mark Fletcher
- Second Crew Member - Christopher Whittingham
Crew Edit
- Assistant Floor Manager - Nick Laughland
- Costumes - Dinah Collin
- Designer - Bernard Lloyd-Jones
- Film Cameraman - Keith Hopper
- Film Editor - Mike Houghton
- Film Sound - John Gatland
- Incidental Music - Malcolm Clarke
- Make-Up - Joan Stribling
- Producer - John Nathan-Turner
- Production Assistant - Jane Ashford
- Production Associate - Angela Smith
- Production Manager - Geoffrey Manton
- Script Editor - Antony Root
- Senior Cameraman - Alec Wheal
- Special Sounds - Dick Mills
- Studio Lighting - Fred Wright
- Studio Sound - Alan Machin
- Technical Manager - Alan Jeffery
- Theme Arrangement - Peter Howell
- Title Music - Ron Grainer
- Videotape Editor - Rod Waldron
- Video Effects - Dave Chapman
- Vision Mixer - James Gould
- Visual Effects Designer - Steve Bowman
References Edit
Astronomical objects Edit
- Adric considers returning to Terradon, in E-Space.
- The freighter was stopped in Sector 16 prior to departing for Earth.
The Doctor Edit
- The Doctor doesn't know what killed the dinosaurs, but always meant to go back and find out.
- The Doctor doesn't want to go back into E-space because of the uncertainties of travelling there.
Cybermen Edit
- The Cybermen are aware of TARDISes and that a single person can pilot one, the Doctor being a Time Lord, regeneration, and, significantly, that Time Lords are "arrogant" but forbidden to interfere.
- The Cybermen's androids fire beams from their palms that dissolve tissue.
Objects Edit
- The Doctor grinds Adric's gold-edged star into the Cyber-Leader's chest.
Spacecraft Edit
- The freighter functions by simulating the use of anti-matter.
TARDIS Edit
- The Doctor's TARDIS has limitless power, at least according to Tegan.
- The Cyber-Leader is able to damage the TARDIS console while damaged.
Story notes Edit
- This story had the working title Sentinel.
- Producer John Nathan-Turner was keen to keep the return of the Cybermen a surprise, and thus ensured that this aspect was given no advance publicity — even going so far as to arrange for the studio observation galleries to be closed for the duration of recording and turning down Radio Times when they offered to feature the Cybermen in a cover photograph and article to mark the start of the story. The Cyber-Leader and Cyber-Lieutenant were referred to as simply "Leader" and "Lieutenant" in the combined Radio Times cast for parts one/two.
- This is the first Cybermen story which neither of their creators, Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, had involvement with.
- Adric's appearance in part two of Time-Flight is solely so he would be credited in the following week's issue of Radio Times, which would be published on the day part four of this story aired — thus hiding his death here.
- This is one of the few serials in which the ending credits have been changed from the regular credits. Adric's star-shaped badge for mathematical excellence is shown broken in pieces while the credits roll in silence. It was the only story in which the main theme was not used in the credits until Rosa. It's also the first time a serial has used scrolling credits since TV: The War Games and the only story in the JNT era to do so.
- This story features a very rare occasion where the Doctor not only uses a weapon but also kills with it.
- The multiple rows of marching Cybermen in part four was actually a single row duplicated and placed side by side using photographic editing.
- The Cyberscope prop was built using parts the modelmaker had scavenged from the Nostromo set constructed for the movie Alien. Similarly, the digital readouts on the device flash up a random series of numbers which were also seen on the monitors of the Nostromo set.
- One of the android costumes would later be repainted silver and used as the costume for the Raston Warrior Robot in The Five Doctors.
- The androids were played by Barney Lawrence and Carolyn Mary Simmonds, who remained uncredited both on-screen and in Radio Times.
- According to the research website BroaDWcast.org, there are reports that part four's silent credits were re-edited to include the regular theme music for its broadcast on the YTV network in the 1990s.[1]
- The story was chosen by BBC America to represent the Peter Davison era during their 50th-anniversary programming. Edited into an omnibus format, it was aired by BBCA on 26 May 2013, after the debut of their homegrown special called The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor. It also aired in the United Kingdom later in the year on 26 October, along with the Revisited special, on the Watch channel.
- Archive footage from TV: The Tenth Planet, The Wheel in Space and Revenge of the Cybermen is shown in part two. The reason for the Third Doctor's omission from the flashback clips was that he never encountered the Cybermen during his original tenure. In relation to this story, the Cybermen's 1985 encounter with the Sixth Doctor in Attack of the Cybermen would have also been part of their chronological past, as would be their 1988 encounter with the Seventh Doctor in Silver Nemesis. Neither were seen as part of the flashback clips. The real world reason for this, of course, was that although these events would have happened already in the timeline, these serials with their respective Doctors had not yet been created for the show.
- This story also exists in the BBC archives as 2 x 50 minute compiled episodes broadcast as part of the Doctor Who and the Monsters repeat season in 1982.
- In a 2018 interview about his career, actor Steve Morley (Walters) recalled being recognised many years later by Doctor Who fans in the shop of the former Exhibition in Llangollen.
Ratings Edit
- Part one - 9.9 million viewers
- Part two - 8.8 million viewers
- Part three - 9.8 million viewers
- Part four - 9.6 million viewers
Filming locations Edit
- Sprinwell Lock Quarry in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire (This was the only location work, which featured at the start of the story, not featuring any of the regular cast)
- BBC Television Centre (Studio 8), Shepherd's Bush, London
Production errors Edit
- The opening credits for all episodes shake and vibrate violently. Even with the precise restoration by the Doctor Who Restoration Team, it is still very noticeable.
- Actor James Warwick changes Lt. Scott's accent without narrative cause. There's a clear and inexplicable difference between his work on location and his later-recorded scenes in the studio. This fact was remarked upon by Janet Fielding and Peter Davison on the DVD commentary.
- As Tegan complains that she's exhausted, something that looks like a stick is being waved around in the darkness. Then, as they climb the stairs on their way to the bridge, a person holding a script can be seen in the background. This fact, too, is highlighted by the DVD commentary.
- When the Cybermen are marching the Doctor and Tegan back to the TARDIS, the Cyber-Leader misses the bottom step and nearly falls.
- When the Cyberman breaks through the softened bridge door, the damage to the door and the Cyberman's arm change size and position between shots.
- When Scott returns to the TARDIS, he has two men and a woman with him. A Cyberman grabs the woman, but when they enter the TARDIS, the man is missing. Later, when they leave, the woman is gone again.
- In part two, the Cyber-Leader's finger misses a button on the console, but we still hear a beep anyway.
- Near the end of this serial, Peter Davison must shove Adric's gold-laden badge into the Cyber Leader's chest from behind. Through the Cyber-Leader's faceplate, a silver box can be seen pressing against David Banks' face. The Cyber costumes had radio microphones in them for recording so the modulation of the actor's voices could occur in real time. The batteries for these mikes were taped to the top inside of the actor's helmets. Over time, of course, the tape would work free and the batteries would fall out of place, resulting in the silver box seen in the Cyber-Leader's faceplate for this scene. Also, when the Cyber-Leader explodes, the wire attached to the small microphone can be clearly seen.
- The dead crewmembers at the end of part two can be clearly seen breathing.
- When Ringway is running down a corridor, supposedly in a tearing hurry, he visibly pulls up just before going out of shot.
- Just before Tegan and the soldiers find the bodies in part three, a white baton mysteriously appears behind them — apparently placed there by a crew member.
- The director commits a line-of-sight blocking error at the end of part one. When the Doctor is discussing the androids, Nyssa and Tegan are nowhere to be seen — yet from the android's viewpoint they are right beside the Doctor.
- When Scott is first walking up the stairs to reach the bridge on the freighter, a very small glimpse of a trainee production assistant can be seen in the background of the shot. She is wearing a white jacket and has a script in her hands, and can be seen turning a page of it. This was pointed out by Peter Davison on the DVD commentary.
- When Adric is attempting to crack the code on the computer just before it is destroyed, he is lightly tapping it while trying to keep his distance (as Matthew Waterhouse knows it is about to explode).
Continuity Edit
- Adric mentions that Romana is still in E-Space, and could help him if he returned. (TV: Warriors' Gate)
- Adric also states that he would not return to Alzarius, but rather to Terradon. (TV: Full Circle)
- The Doctor uses Adric's gold star badge (TV: Full Circle) to asphyxiate the Cyber-Leader. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)
- The Cybermen are CyberNeomorphs. (AUDIO: The Ultimate Cybermen)
- The Cybermen watch scenes from other encounters with the First Doctor (TV: The Tenth Planet), the Second Doctor (TV: The Wheel in Space), and the Fourth Doctor (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen).
- The alien computer the Cybermen used and the fate of the freighter and Adric are explored further in AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot.
- Unknown to the Doctor, a future companion named Jack Harkness is, for reasons unknown, on Earth at the time of the freighter explosion, though Jack would believe the destruction of the dinosaurs was caused by a meteor hitting Earth. (TV: Fragments)
- The Eleventh Doctor would implicitly refer to Adric, Katarina and Sara Kingdom by telling Brian Williams that some of his companions "but not many, died." (TV: The Power of Three)
- In an alternate timeline, the Doctor was able to save Adric. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
- The Fifth Doctor is reading Black Orchid before his argument with Adric. (TV: Black Orchid) He started reading it before the TARDIS materialised on Fleming's Island off the coast of Ireland in December 1981. (AUDIO: Iterations of I)
- Amongst the objects in Adric's room is the skull mask worn by the Terileptil android when it went out in public as the figure of Death (TV: The Visitation), and one of the many pendants worn by the Kinda tribe's male members (TV: Kinda).
Home video and audio releases Edit
DVD releases Edit
This story was released as Doctor Who: Earthshock.
- Region 4 - 1 October 2003
- Region 1 - 7 September 2004
- NTSC - Warner Video E2022
- Commentary by actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, and Matthew Waterhouse
- Putting the Shock into Earthshock - Charts the development and creation of the story, and the unique effect it had on viewers.
- CGI Effects
- Episode 5 animated spoof
- Location Film Sequences - Contains shots and dialogue cut from the broadcast version
- Did You See? - A 1982 BBC Two review programme takes a look at Doctor Who's most memorable monsters
- Music-only Option
- Photo Gallery
- Production Subtitles
- Easter Egg- Navigate down to the special features option on the first menu and press select. Move down to the 40th Anniversary Celebration option and hit left to highlight a hidden Doctor Who logo. Hit select and you'll get a comedy sketch featuring a clip of Earthshock that's been over-dubbed.
- Editing for the DVD release was completed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team. The most prominent of these edits is to the serial's final scenes, when the freighter crashes into prehistoric Earth. The edit mainly revises the scene so that, instead of the TARDIS's monitor showing a still image of the freighter, followed by several bright flashes (meant to represent the explosion of the impact), the screen actually shows the freighter crashing into Earth, with the explosion being represented by a pulsating light over the impact site.
Video releases Edit
This story was released as Doctor Who: Earthshock.
- UK September 1992
- PAL - BBC Video BBCV4840
- Australia 1993
Audio Release Edit
A soundtrack album of the music from this serial was released by Silva Screen Records as Earthshock: Classic Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Vol. 1 (FILMCD 709). This is an edited re-release of the "BBC Records" release, "Doctor Who the Music: Volume 1". Of the 22 tracks, only three are from "Earthshock".
External links Edit
- Earthshock at the BBC's official site
- Earthshock at RadioTimes
- Earthshock at BroaDWcast
- Earthshock at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- Earthshock at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
- Earthshock at The Locations Guide
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